Daily Archives: March 15, 2021
Israeli Short Film ‘White Eye’ Nabs Oscar Nomination
Israeli short film “White Eye” by director Tomer Shushan was nominated for an Academy Award, popularly known as an Oscar, in the “Best Live Action Short Film” category.
“White Eye” is one of five nominees in the...
Grammy 2021: Tiffany Haddish wins with “Black Mitzvah”
The Grammys awards ceremony is the panacea for every musical artist. While lights are always taken by other categories, comedy is also highly coveted. This year, the sense of humor so characteristic of the...
‘Haredi’ duo takes Israeli comedy world by storm
Efi Skakovsky and Meni Wakshtock, two haredi comedians, have managed to shatter stereotypes by proving to secular Israelis that being haredi doesn’t mean you can’t be funny.
The duo, known as Bardak (“chaos”), have taken the comedy world by...
Two statues in New York City honor late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Two statues honoring the late Jewish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are being unveiled in her home city of New York.
A bronze statue of Ginsburg in Central Park will be unveiled on Friday,...
Our German-made Passover seder plates
Storytelling is a central feature of the Passover holiday. The imperative for Jews to retell our history assures that our children will never forget it.
During the Holocaust, traditional Passover seder texts were handwritten in...
South Africa’s chief justice confronts the apartheid analogy
As of this writing, South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was on day seven of a 10-day deadline to publicly apologize for a speech he made last year in which he offered a full-throated...
Colombia community gets fresh-water system to boost health for students, residents
Two devices that extract drinking water from the air were donated by Israel to schools in rural Colombia and installed last week in La Guajira, in the northeastern part of the country, which for...
Iran warns time is running out to revive nuclear deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that the United States must quickly work to revive the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, due to Iran’s presidential elections scheduled...
‘Hamas wants an Islamist state in the West Bank’
In November 2020, many months after cutting all ties with Israel, and with the declaration of Israeli sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria off the table, the Palestinian Authority agreed to renew security...
IsraAID sends vaccine-support team to Eswatini
Israeli humanitarian aid agency IsraAID dispatched a medical, logistical and psychosocial team to Eswatini (Swaziland) on March 8 at the invitation of the Eswatini government to support the southern African country’s upcoming national COVID-19...